Post by: Francine Eisner on June 21, 2007, 08:11:53 AM
I was looking around at the various Mac Maintenance pages on the internet, and realized that I hadn't seen the "presence of NAV" since I installed OS X. Sure enough, when I tried to run it, I received a message that it "will not run in Classic." Is there a way to update it? If not, is there a free antivirus program out there? (I have no $$$).
Cheers,
Francine
Post by: Texas Mac Man on June 21, 2007, 08:32:17 AM
Cheers, Tom
Post by: Francine Eisner on June 21, 2007, 08:34:39 AM
I've noticed that Symantec has a "download update" of NAV from version 6.0 to 10.0 for $30, which I might be able to manage to scrape together. But has anyone done this successfully?
Cheers,
Francine
Post by: Francine Eisner on June 21, 2007, 08:49:30 AM
Cheers,
Francine
Post by: Highmac on June 21, 2007, 10:37:06 AM
Edit to add: If Tom recommends something, it's generally well worth a look!
Post by: pendragon on June 21, 2007, 10:56:20 AM
In a similar MacFixIt thread, Tacit had this to say re NAV:
"I would advise you to get rid of your Symantec antivirus program. Norton Antivirus, if that is what you're using, has a large list of very serious known and documented bugs; Norton Antivirus can cause kernel panics, system corruption, corruption of files on your hard disk, and problems with iPods and iTunes. It is, quite literally, worse than the non-existant threat it pretends to protect you from."
A search of the MFI forums yields many like comments and the horror stories that originally prompted the post.
Years ago, I used NAV. But now, I would not, under any circumstances, run a Norton product.
Post by: Francine Eisner on June 21, 2007, 10:56:28 AM
Cheers,
Francine
Post by: Xairbusdriver on June 21, 2007, 11:39:02 AM
Post by: Jack W on June 21, 2007, 03:42:23 PM
I wouldn't use Norton anything in OS X.
Nor in OS 9 if OS X is installed!
Jack
Post by: Paddy on June 21, 2007, 04:00:28 PM
Your question related to Classic though (which nobody seems to have addressed) - again, for the number of viruses out there affecting the Classic OS, I don't think I'd worry. Many of them are older than the hills (and affected earlier versions of the OS than 9) and are about as likely to show up as snow in July at this point. I had anti-virus software for a few years but pretty much abandoned it by the time OS 9 rolled around.
Post by: Francine Eisner on June 21, 2007, 04:11:30 PM
Couldn't resist,
Francine
Post by: Paddy on June 21, 2007, 08:14:36 PM
Yeah, well, I guess it could also depend on where you live!!
Post by: Gregg on June 22, 2007, 07:37:31 AM